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Ignoring the meteors which had been drawn through in the wake of the ship's jump, blocking out the chilling thought of what pieces of her home they once were, Kara focused on the ship amidst them ahead of her own. Her cousin was only a child. He'd barely taken his first steps. Her aunt and uncle had trusted her to protect him, her parents were counting on her. There would be time to grieve later. She couldn't think about that right now or she'd fall apart and be no good to anyone.
The flight became a lot less smooth as they breached the planet's atmosphere. The viewscreen showed her the fiery halos forming around both pods and the meteors surrounding them. Kara's jaw clenched as she gripped the edge of the console. It would be fine, these vessels were built to be nearly indestructi-
And then two flaming hunks of all that remained of her world collided with one another, altering their trajectories sharply. For all her ship's maneuverability, it happened too fast for the girl to react. She shouted wordlessly at the impact, losing sight of her cousin's craft as her own pitched violently forward into a nosedive. Water rushed up to meet her. Free of the void of space, once more inside the gravity of a celestial body, the G force pressed Kara firmly against the seat. She couldn't reach the controls. Clenching her teeth and sending a prayer to Rao, she disengaged her harness and lunged for the console…
Just as the ship impacted the surface of the water, pitching her forward violently. She had just enough time to start to try and throw her hands up to shield her face, eyes wide in sudden panic.
And then everything went black.
13 Years Later:
The ambitious reporter stared in awestruck fascination from his kneeling position in the storm cellar on the Kent farm as the disc he had stolen from the Luthor mansion tugged itself out of his hand and floated towards the ship. This discovery had so enraptured him that he had become deaf to the howling winds outside but the sounds of hurried footsteps descending the staircase snapped him back to reality. Acting on reflex born of a long career, he immediately hoisted his video camera and began to question the couple who entered.
"Mr. Kent, Roger Nixon, Metropolis In-"
"Who the hell are you?!" The farmer cut the reporter off angrily, grabbing him by the lapels and slamming him into a support beam. The man was incensed, ignoring both Nixon's feeble verbal defenses and his own wife's pleas for restraint, tossing this intruder to his home and threat to his family around the room, knocking him down again with a right hook when he briefly regained his footing.
And then there was a rising humming as the ship lifted off the ground, giving the reporter just enough reprieve to make a break for the exit. Johnathan Kent was hot on his heels but Martha remained behind with one last broken cry in a fruitless attempt to stop her husband. Then the alien vessel had her full wide-eyed attention as it began to glow like the sun.
Across Smallville, fish scattered in all directions away from a similar glow deep beneath the waters of Reeves Dam. Disoriented upon awakening from the emergency stasis the downed vessel had automatically placed its pilot in, her ship clearly damaged from the alarm sounds and lights as well as sparks within the cockpit, Kara instinctively triggered the manual release on the hatch… and was immediately submerged in a deluge of water.
The shock had the girl wide awake, thoughts crystallizing with the rush of adrenaline, thanking Rao her reflexes had been fast enough to take a sharp inhalation just before the water hit her. Prepared to swim not only for her life but for her young cousin's as well, Kara was taken aback as she kicked off from the seat of her ship… and rocketed straight up out of the water, several feet into the air, and landed in a heap on the concrete bordering the reservoir.
Pushing up to her hands and knees, the young Kryptonian shelved that for another time. She had to find Kal's… as Kara gazed up to locate the other craft, the sight that met her took her breath away more so than the water had. The sky was dark and storming and three funnels of dirt and debris arced down from the heavens to tear across the land. She knew what a tornado was, had studied them, even seen holofeeds… but they were not a weather phenomenon which occurred in Argo. They happened occasionally in Kandor… before… but never while Kara had been visiting, thank Rao.
Was this her fault? The girl understood the basic physics. Could the heat of the meteors which had followed her ship have been sufficient to disrupt the local atmospheric pressures to this degree? Had she fled the destruction of one world… and unwittingly brought some of it onto the unsuspecting residents of another?
Recriminations would have to wait. Right now, all that mattered was finding Kal-El. His safety had to come before the humans.